New frontiers in bird migration research

A Flack, EO Aikens, A Kölzsch, E Nourani, KRS Snell… - Current Biology, 2022 - cell.com
Bird migrations are impressive behavioral phenomena, representing complex
spatiotemporal strategies to balance costs of living while maximizing fitness. The field of bird …

[HTML][HTML] Sensory collectives in natural systems

HJ Williams, VH Sridhar, E Hurme, GEC Gall… - Elife, 2023 - elifesciences.org
Groups of animals inhabit vastly different sensory worlds, or umwelten, which shape
fundamental aspects of their behaviour. Yet the sensory ecology of species is rarely …

Enhanced camera-based individual pig detection and tracking for smart pig farms

Q Guo, Y Sun, C Orsini, JE Bolhuis, J de Vlieg… - … and Electronics in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Negative social interactions are harmful for animal health and welfare. It is increasingly
important to employ a continuous and effective monitoring system for detecting and tracking …

Collective behavior from surprise minimization

C Heins, B Millidge, L Da Costa… - Proceedings of the …, 2024 - National Acad Sciences
Collective motion is ubiquitous in nature; groups of animals, such as fish, birds, and
ungulates appear to move as a whole, exhibiting a rich behavioral repertoire that ranges …

[HTML][HTML] Development of neural circuits for social motion perception in schooling fish

D Zada, L Schulze, JH Yu, P Tarabishi, JL Napoli… - Current Biology, 2024 - cell.com
The collective behavior of animal groups emerges from the interactions among individuals.
These social interactions produce the coordinated movements of bird flocks and fish …

Learning hydrodynamic equations for active matter from particle simulations and experiments

R Supekar, B Song, A Hastewell… - Proceedings of the …, 2023 - National Acad Sciences
Recent advances in high-resolution imaging techniques and particle-based simulation
methods have enabled the precise microscopic characterization of collective dynamics in …

Is the neighborhood of interaction in human crowds metric, topological, or visual?

TD Wirth, GC Dachner, KW Rio, WH Warren - PNAS nexus, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Global patterns of collective motion in bird flocks, fish schools, and human crowds are
thought to emerge from local interactions within a neighborhood of interaction, the zone in …

Mechanisms of group‐hunting in vertebrates

MJ Hansen, P Domenici, P Bartashevich… - Biological …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Group‐hunting is ubiquitous across animal taxa and has received considerable attention in
the context of its functions. By contrast much less is known about the mechanisms by which …

Both prey and predator features predict the individual predation risk and survival of schooling prey

JW Jolles, MMG Sosna, GPF Mazué, CR Twomey… - Elife, 2022 - elifesciences.org
Predation is one of the main evolutionary drivers of social grouping. While it is well
appreciated that predation risk is likely not shared equally among individuals within groups …

[HTML][HTML] Visually guided and context-dependent spatial navigation in the translucent fish Danionella cerebrum

TJ Lee, KL Briggman - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Danionella cerebrum (DC) is a promising vertebrate animal model for systems neuroscience
due to its small adult brain volume and inherent optical transparency, but the scope of their …